The Hobbit
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- CX0
http://www.nintendo.com/games/ga…
I didn't know this until yesterday but there is a Hobbit game coming out in Nov. I hope its good, it looks a bit cartoonish.
- dstlb0
Sorry to buck the trend but I found The Hobbit really boring, loved it when I was about 10 years old but read it again a year or two ago and wasn't at all into it. The LOTR trilogy is a whole lot better.
- CALLES0
wow... ressurecting a thread from '03
Sir Ian McKellen on The Hobbit Films
Will Sir Ian McKellen reprise his Oscar-nominated role of Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" prequels The Hobbit and its sequel? McKellen says it's pretty likely on his latest official E-Post:
Q: So has it come to pass, good Sir McKellen? Shall the dreaming masses with their musty books and their blackened pipes at long last hear those immortal words issue from under that famous nose? "Yes, yes, my dear sir-and I know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don't remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! To think I should have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!" Looking about, I find I share the same hopes as millions of others, so I ask, a single query in a chorus... Will you again be our Gandalf in "The Hobbit" now that the deal is settled?
A: Yes I will, if Peter Jackson and I have anything to do with it, he being the producer and me being, on the whole, a very lucky actor. I've just read your quote out loud - fabulous speech.
Q: Have you been approached yet by Peter Jackson or anyone else about reprising your wonderful role as Gandalf for the two upcoming "Hobbit" movies. I read that principal photography begins in 2009, and I can't imagine those movies without you!
A: Encouragingly, Peter and Fran Walsh have told me they couldn't imagine The Hobbit without their original Gandalf. Their confidence hasn't yet been confirmed by the director Guillermo del Toro but I am keeping my diary free for 2009!
- Jaline0
We had to read it in Grade 7 (about 9 years ago). Don't remember much, but it was fun.
The Hobbit should be coming out in 2010
http://imdb.com/title/tt0903624/…Directed by Guillermo del Toro, which should be very interesting.
- way to summarize the previous post.GreedoLives
- It took me like 5 minutes to write this so I didn't see this entire page before I wrote it...Jaline
- hahaTaylorB
- harlequino0
I'll take Hobbit porn instead.
http://www.villagevoice.com/peop…- i'll admit... i looked through the gallery... and now im sporting some chubbery7point34
- seed0
I read it a few years ago and loved it. I'm trying to get my kids to read it soon.
- CALLES0
i was just trying to say that ian is back
- ********0
I could never get past 20 pages of any of his books.
- Jaline0
I'm an English major and I couldn't stand reading these books, particularly the LOTR trilogy. I don't know what's wrong with me...
- gramme0
Sacrilege, Jaline! Those books are treasures of the English language. I daresay Tolkien was the premier linguist of our time. He understand the roots of western European languages better than possibly anyone before or since. Seamus Heaney might be the one person of our time who comes close to Tolkien in that regard.
I absolutely love the Hobbit – it's a timeless classic that I think is just as engaging for adult readers as it is for kids. Every word of the first page is pure gold. I really really hope they make a movie out of it.
On the subject, and at the risk of revealing my profound nerdity, has anyone here read the Silmarillion or The Children of Hurin? I would love to see some of those stories turned into movies – they are the background fabric against which the more 'contemporary' story of LOTR is set. The Children of Hurin would especially be beautiful and heartbreaking, as would the story of Beren and Luthien.
*dons cloak, disappears into the mist
- cypto-jesuitical drivel.********
- I'm not saying it's not good. Just that it bored me so much in the first few chapters.Jaline
- Its dishonest and offers a stew of mysticism only LSD could make coherent. All roads lead to Rome,********
- Oh for crying out loud capsize. BTW you misspelled Crypto-. -100.gramme
- You'd have said none of that if you didn't know I'm a Christian.gramme
- crypto-, yeah, you got me. christian or not doesn't change the pure density of the prose.********
- its the fruitcake of english lit- passed around endlessly and indigestible.********
- and heavy, man.********
- So what would you consider to be a strong example of English literature?gramme
- writing at the same time as Tolkien?sybil bedford, anthony powell, waugh, w.lewis, powys,********
- enid blyton for christ's sake... but wait there's more Graham greene,Orwell, Maugham, wait there's more!********
- Derek Marlowe,anthony Burgess, nancy mitford********
- cypto-jesuitical drivel.
- kult0
LOTR was utterly amazing for completely different reasons. I found Tolkien's style of writing to be somewhat mundane, but the concepts and entire world he created is the astounding part. It's one of the most comprehensive universes ever... the books read almost like a more thrilling history book.
Anyway, I remember that Hobbit animated film from back in the day. I saw it a couple times as a kid when HBO would randomly air it, but never, ever realized it was actually The Hobbit. The Gollum in it was fucking freaky though.
- anzelina0
"...role as Gandalf for the two upcoming "Hobbit" movies"
That means there are two?
My mom used to read the Hobbit to us as kids, bedtime stories. I loved it then and I still love it now, after rereading it this winter.
Also read about 1/2 of the Silmarillion (I had a really rad copy with a fold-out map in the back) but I couldn't get through it. I think I was too young at the time. Would love to reread it now.
Tolkien is one smart cookie.
- if you liked all the endless stories strider would tell around the campfire, go for it, if not, don't bother...GreedoLives
- 7point340
i am torn on this.... i love guillermo del toro, but i'm not much of a fan of the hobbit
- gramme0
The story at the beginning of the Silmarillion about the creation of the world is stunning, almost biblical in its linguistic authority. The way the Valar sang the world into existence is particularly beautiful.
- harlequino0
Is Jackson's company Wingnut producing? If his wife/parter/whatever adapts it, i'll be interested.
- dopepope0
- holy shit, that's great. Is that a Sin CIty toy?harlequino
- Yes. It comes with different feet tho.dopepope
- hahaJaline
- gramme0
Hey capsize, I'm interested in hearing why you think Tolkien's writings are dishonest. Sure LOTR and the Silmarillion can be hard to follow due to the enormously long list of characters, but the basic premise and flow of the story is pretty straightforward. I managed to make it through the trilogy in 5th and 6th grade, without the help of acid or any other hallucinogen.
- CALLES0
Well, I had the most charming meeting with Sir Ian, and all bureaucracy pending, he’s on board, as is Andy Serkis. We will continue giving you progress reports as the occur. It is our intention that we will not lose any of the key elements.
- ********0
"The english seems much more sophisticated than what we use now also. I wonder if they'll ever make a movie of it?" [CX, Sep 24, 03, 7:31 p.m.]
I cannot help noticing the contradiction here ;)